384 Wis. 2d 111 - State v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lamie v. United States Trustee · State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County · 208 Wis. 2d 166 - In RE MARRIAGE OF COOK v. Cook · Marx v. General Revenue Corp. · Marx v. General Revenue Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he directive that we endeavor to give meaning to all parts of statutes so as to avoid surplusage is not a directive that we give different terms different meanings, regardless where that leads”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]tatutory language is given its common, ordinary, and accepted meaning, except that technical or specially-defined words or phrases are given their technical or special definitional meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If this process of analysis yields a plain, clear statutory meaning, then there is no ambiguity, and the statute is applied according to this ascertainment of its meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.